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Variations ǀ Down in Brazil

IN his short story titled “The Beheading of the Heads,” the late, great Italian writer Italo Calvino recounted a visit to the capital of an unnamed country where the heads of government served a fixed term, at the end of which they were publicly beheaded. Why? Because otherwise, “everybody would wa…
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BC’s Tales of the Pacific ǀ Cold War II

HISTORIANS and political scientists are growing more comfortable using the term Cold War Two when describing the international tension between China and the United States.  The first Cold War was between the United States and the Soviet Union from about 1945 through 1991 when the Soviet Union colla…
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Variations | Don’t ‘listen to the people’

THIS point has been made many times before by many other commentators all over the world, but voters need to be reminded of it constantly: We won’t just hire anyone to pull out a broken tooth, treat an illness or fix our car. We will go to a reputable expert: a dentist, a doctor, a mechanic. And ye…
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OPINION | Truth 31: A leap of faith in China!

THE TRUTH of the matter is I believe the Senate has leaped before they looked, which is a big no-no! We learn in our formative years to “look before you leap” and yet the Senate seems to have jumped off the EVS-TAP cliff without doing their homework (KNOWING it will work). Based on what I have read…
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OPINION | Truth 30: Forward v backward thinkers & reality!

THE TRUTH of the matter is our Governor has “chosen wisely” for us and WE-as-a-People, need to get on board and start moving forward as “one people headed in the same direction” and stop figuratively looking in the rearview mirror at China. We don’t hear Kilili promoting this EVS-TAP stuff because …
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